RxDoctor Payments Data

Roderick Ekmark, MD

Family Medicine · la Vernia, TXNPI 1063693398

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,051in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $18.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$230
  • AstraZeneca$163
  • Amgen$134
  • Lilly USA, LLC$126
  • Novo Nordisk$111
  • Dexcom, Inc.$64
  • plus $225 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,051100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$1,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$152,754
Medicare patients
272
Services billed
2,154

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate36$35,988
MounjaroTirzepatide16$18,752
EliquisApixaban19$17,398
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$8,672
Gabapentin87$1,445
Levothyroxine Sodium136$1,359
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol15$1,139
Atorvastatin Calcium160$1,138
Losartan Potassium103$1,067
Pantoprazole Sodium68$1,063
Rosuvastatin Calcium97$987
Omeprazole75$973
Potassium Chloride25$955
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium17$898
Montelukast Sodium94$834

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$126$18,75216 claims
PfizerEliquis$55$17,39819 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$230$89817 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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